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* '''Justified''': ??? (This trope is usually justified by default.)

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* '''Justified''': ??? (This trope is usually justified by default.)TruthInTelevision, cephalopods are very stealthy.



* '''Played for Drama''': Otto is a shy, awkward creature who uses his stealth to hide from people. He is very lonely.



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* '''Played for Laughs''': Otto the octopus uses his skills to troll someone, who has no idea that an octopus is doing these things.
* '''Played for Horror''': Otto the octopus is a {{Slasher|Movie}}-like monster, using his abilities to stalk and kill a group of innocents trapped in an aquarium with him.



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* '''Implied''': ???Something sneaks past the hero. When the hero looks, there are nothing but sucker marks left behind.



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* '''Inverted''': Otto is a giant brute who makes no attempts at stealth, instead preferring to fight head-on.

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Otto is a giant brute who makes no attempts at stealth, instead preferring to fight head-on.head-on.
** Otto is incredibly talkative and boisterous, so much so that the heroes can never get him to shut up when they're trying to be stealthy.
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'''Basic Trope''': Fictional cephalopods portrayed as sneaky, stealthy creatures, often making use of camouflage and other natural abilities of real cephalopods.
* '''Straight''': Otto the octopus is a professional spy and master of disguise in the ocean world.
* '''Exaggerated''': Otto sneaks up on humans at the beach and stabs them in the back [[ForTheEvulz just to prove that he can]].
* '''Downplayed''': Otto the octopus doesn't normally depend on stealth, but he does manage to hide from his enemies successfully on one occasion.
* '''Justified''': ??? (This trope is usually justified by default.)
* '''Inverted''': Otto is a giant brute who makes no attempts at stealth, instead preferring to fight head-on.
* '''Subverted''': The heroes begin searching for Otto, only to realize he's standing right behind them in broad daylight.
* '''Double Subverted''': The "Otto" they found is [[ActuallyADoombot only a dummy]] that the ''real'' Otto set up to trick them.
* '''Parodied''': Otto is a FunnyOctopus who only ''thinks'' he's being stealthy, when everyone can clearly see him.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Otto hides from some enemies and fights others head-on, whichever tactic is more logical at the moment.
* '''Averted''': Otto does not use stealth. There are simply no events in his story that would require it.
* '''Enforced''': The creators need a stealthy character, and cephalopods just happen to have those abilities in real life, so it works out.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Octopuses are slippery like that."
* '''Invoked''': Otto is a human spy who uses "Octopus" as his codename.
* '''Exploited''': Fred the fish needs someone to do espionage, so he asks the only octopus he knows, Otto.
* '''Defied''': Otto refuses to use espionage because he considers it [[DirtyCoward cowardly]].
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